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Shahi has always held an aesthetic appreciation for the beauty of the cosmos and the natural world, which has led to her artworks being deeply inspired by cosmology, the collective unconscious, mythology and metaphysics.
Shahi’s work has been widely exhibited internationally, with exhibitions in the
London Contemporary Art Fair, Florence Biennale, Saatchi Gallery, Istanbul Art and Antique Fair, Bodrum Art Fair, and World Art Dubai.
Her works are currently also displayed in Rossocinabro Gallery in Rome, The Coolectibles Gallery in Istanbul, and in the Movenpick Hotel in Lebanon.
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Shahi has dedicated part of her life to serving humanity through her International Law studies and her key role in several humanitarian organizations. She has donated several artworks and proceeds to NGOs, and believes in the power art has in connecting people together as one.
Shahi’s strokes are bold, layered, intricate and vividly expressive, often evoking a multitude of emotions simultaneously and the illusion of movement. In her process, she seeks to reflect her own life story in a way that, most importantly, allows her pieces to act as a portal to the individual stories of the viewers themselves.
Shahi’s artwork draws inspiration from her continuous speculation of the tension that exists between the characters we often play on the ‘world’s stage’ and the pull to connect with a deeper metaphysical understanding of one’s higher purpose. Her paintings question the mysteries of human existence, draw on themes of the roles of femininity and masculinity in parallel to the natural world, and shed light on the beauty in the complexity of being human. The deeper one looks into the paintings, the more the art speaks to their spirit and resonates within.
Shahi explains: “With the dip of a paintbrush, a new world begins to come alive, constantly evolving into something unexpected, revealing a dynamic inner world of unconscious fears, fantasies and desires”.